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Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/
From:
abigail
Date:
February 9, 2001 11:42
Subject:
Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/
Message ID:
20010209194103.11178.qmail@foad.org
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:06:12PM -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
>
> 2. Work proportional to live data, not total data. This is hard to
> believe for a C programmer, but good garbage collectors don't have
> to "free" every allocation -- they just have to preserve the live,
> or reachable, data. Some researchers have estimated that 90% or
> more of all allocated data dies (becomes unreachable) before the
> next collection. A ref count system has to work on every object,
> but smarter collectors only work on 10% of the objects.
So, it's more a data preserver than a garbage collector.... ;-)
Abigail